Re: Re: Sure enough, the lock file is gone

> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > The bottom line: yes, /tmp was a poor choice of place to put the
> > > socket files.  But no, it is not so poor as to be worth creating a
> >
> > Was it really a poor choice.  Where else can we put it as non-root?
> 
> ~pgsql/var/run?  everything else was under that directory structure ...

Sure, but how do we hard-code where ~pgsql is located, unless we somehow
check the home directory of pgsql, but then again, they really don't
have to use the home directory of pgsql for the pgsql directory.

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